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TIL about the Industrial Workers of the World. A labor movement that was crushed early on for being too radical

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BBjx TIL: that when the Mongol army was withering from the 14th century bubonic plague epidemic, they decided to catapult their infected corpses over city walls before invading. This is considered one of the first acts of biological warfare
VM6QZ TIL that the First brown bear in 150 years has been seen in a national park in northern Spain
e0KP6 TIL an article in 1968 revealed widespread marijuana use among US soldiers in Vietnam. As a result of the media uproar stateside and subsequent crackdown by the army, soldiers shifted to heroin, which was odorless and harder to detect. By 1973, up to 20% of the soldiers were habitual heroin users.
e0rnn TIL of a Great year. A period of time that lasts 25,772 years and measures the rotation of the earths axis.
X0Pe8 TIL that former king of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk directed and produced 50 films in his lifetime.